Its good to see how currencies evolve with time and find their usage in real world. This era is definitely not limited to Dollars or Pounds or Euros, Crypto currencies are changing the face of this world. Many a times the projects are dumped/gets into stagnant mode because there isn't any active developer/community. I have also seen instances where the project was dormant and the community picked it up and change the whole face of it. Whatever be the case, I am happy this coin is back with some change and the POS return does seem reasonable.
The cryptocurrency ecosystem has changed drastically since 2014, when GAY Money was originally launched. Bitcoin is going mainstream, market integrations are easier to bring into play, regulatory frameworks are being established, the definition of asset classes is being permanently disrupted and blockchain technology has the sense of inevitability and ubiquitous involvement in our lives going forward.
Im a self-confessed cryptocurrency evangelist, and believe truly in its promise of wealth decentralization. GAY Money is one of those projects, with a global market to serve, that can truly take advantage of this moment in time to position itself with the types of services a cryptocurrency project MUST provide to remain relevant. Our goals presently are to build out our branded exchange and our marketplace. Both of these projects will build utility for the currency.
gaymoney.market will feature an LGBT directory, with a focus towards companies that participate in the GAY Money economy, and a marketplace for users to sell goods and services for GAY Money. I believe very strongly in the "Think Globally, Act Locally" philosophy and have secured deep interest here on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia with LGBT-businesspeople, and have a good half-dozen establishments prepared to begin accepting GAY Money - a tourist knick-knack shop near the cruise ship pavilion, a bakery, a coffee shop, a nightclub, an automotive-wrapping service and a bed-and-breakfast. Further LGBT businesses in Halifax have expressed enthusiasm towards the project. We have several other companies internationally that are curious to being participation, including an up-and-coming gay travel web service.
I attempt to email a copy of our "media page" and a short intro to the project to at least 25 relevant businesses every day as I work on other aspects of this project. We have a LOT of developments planned into the future, and want to truly build a community tying together cryptocurrency and LGBT causes.
The associated marketplace will allow artisans and craftspeople to sell their goods directly through the website, with dynamic exchange rates available. We are investigating adding GAY Money ATM cards to our services as well. Our fiat-exchange will allow for direct purchase of GAY Money in as many as a dozen foreign currencies and we plan on setting the standard with our altcoin exchange, being very connected to the developers and the communities of altcoins we host. I would also, very much, like to set up a pooled staking webwallet for users who wish to participate in that sort of endeavor.
Our further mission is to make GAY Money simple to access and easy to use for everyone, especially those who aren’t experienced in the world of cryptocurrency. Anybody should be able to setup a GAY wallet, and purchases made from websites and bricks-and-mortar businesses should be as easy to achieve with GAY Money as it is with fiat currencies, for both merchant and consumer.
We are truly on the threshold of cryptocurrency outpacing other payment forms, and as our world becomes more and more hyper-connected, positioning ourselves as the brand representing the LGBT community will cement our seat in the Top 25 market capitalizations. GAY Money must become something more than a simple vehicle for speculation.
One last question, do you all plan to implement Masternodes in your network?
The idea of associated masternodes has become a very popular development for cryptocurrencies and ensures both blockchain security and uptime but allows for an ease of governance to be achieved. Having our protocols based on X11, popularized by DASH, we have the framework to work with masternodes, and have been thinking about some form of similar formation alongside our move towards incorporation of this project as the GAY Foundation, Ltd. in the UK. There are definitely many advantages to the use of masternodes, and to the sorts of services dedicated nodes such as that could perform.
By tying in single whole units of GAY Money into the fundamental shareholders' rights and protections of single units of stock, we can assign classes of shares into equity, preference and executive categories, with simple Class conversion achieved thru verified balance thresholds. To keep things simple, we will employ the "alphabet shares" scheme with Class A, B, and C shares. Cryptocurrency, at its core, is a form of equity ownership in a project, much the same as any common stock, differing mostly by its free transferability.
As essentially described for our articles of association, Class C shares represent common stock in the GAY Foundation, and carry no voting-rights and no dividends. They maintain, as every unit of GAY Money, a natural 20% APR on balances that are held in active wallets. Class B shares, reached at a predetermined threshold balance of GAY Money, verified thru signed transaction, will becoming prefered shares, and will present the rights to vote on protocol enhancement, promotion and Foundation philanthropic implementations, and to further receive a proportional dividend of 50% of the profits generated by Foundation run services thru transaction fees, advertising revenue, etc. Class A shares would be at a much higher verified threshold and pertain to executive level decision making and voting towards use of corporate held funds (as opposed to the Foundation wallet) for investing in LGBT enterprises, as well as a proportionate return of dividends of the remaining 50% of the profits generated by Foundation run services.
Building in a masternode system would make this form of governance much more decentralized, and would ensure that the sort of charitable work we hope to perform thru a self-sustaining release of Foundation wallet funds will survive us. The central questions that arise, though, are what services could a masternodes system provide to the GAY Money network that would be deemed useful? What sorts of conventions are set collateralizing the stake for a masternode, and can we make it simpler to set up?
All that being said, masternodes are a definite probability as a future protocol update, and as the services we might possibly provide with that increases exponentially, the movement towards that will be much sooner than later on the development roadmap. I can foresee a ton of possibilities for services that can be hosted, but would love to ear other ideas.
How about an LGBT dating app hosted thru masternodes, with incentivization allowing for the typical fees for interaction charged by such services be sent to masternode operators? While ideas popular thru the DASH masternode program like DarkSend (anonymous transactions) are wonderful, we already have transaction speed that rivals InstantSend as it is. But what MORE can we do with masternodes, with APIs and the constant evolution of interoperability? I cant help but think that consistently re-imagining what we can build on top of existing architecture will lead GAY Money to eventually provide a complete financial service entity that evolves beyond the blockchain.
Anyhow, thank you for the positive message, and hopefully we can earn your consistent participation in the new LGBT economy.